More retail news – Page 151
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Hervis continues to expand outside Austria by opening its fifth...
Hervis continues to expand outside Austria by opening its fifth store in Bavaria later this year, most likely in the autumn. The discount-oriented chain has rented a 1,000-square-meter space in a shopping center in Neumarkt.
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Go Sport, the French sports retailer, is opening two more...
Go Sport, the French sports retailer, is opening two more stores in Poland, to form a network of 28 stores. Covering 1,255 square meters, the first store is located in the northern Polish town of Elbag, in the Ogrody shopping arcade. The second store of about 1,224 square meters is ...
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Marks & Spencer has reportedly teamed up with Norman Walsh...
Marks & Spencer has reportedly teamed up with Norman Walsh Footwear, an upmarket British sports footwear company with production facilities in Britain. The Daily Telegraph reports that M&S is to sell a range of eight models at about £110 per pair under its Best of British label. The tie-up will ...
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New Balance has announced plans for a flagship store on...
New Balance has announced plans for a flagship store on London's Oxford Street, which should open around the middle of next year. The store on the ultra-busy shopping street is to cover 1,200 square meters. The displays will highlight the company's innovation as well as that it manufactures in England. ...
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Rebel Sports stores in New Zealand raised their turnover by...
Rebel Sports stores in New Zealand raised their turnover by 10.9 percent to 46.7 million New Zealand dollars (€30.5m-$34.9m) in the three months ended April 26, which is the first quarter of its fiscal year. The Briscoe Group, which operates Rebel Sports stores in New Zealand, reported that same-store sales ...
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Intersport Italia has announced the opening of yet another franchised...
Intersport Italia has announced the opening of yet another franchised Intersport store in the Sicilian town of Enna
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Adidas Group regains impetus
The Adidas Group has delivered a vigorous sales and profit increase for the first quarter, with improvements in all markets other than Russia and the golf business. The group's sales jumped by 17.3 percent to €4,083 million, which was an increase of 9 percent in constant currencies, and its underlying ...
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New Adidas reporting reveals regional margins
A new reporting structure adopted by the Adidas Group delivers unprecedented details about the company's sales and profit margins by brand and by regional unit – revealing just how juicy its business is in Russia and China and the distance between the Adidas and Under Armour brands in North America ...
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Adidas stores to phase out plastic bags
The Adidas Group has inked a partnership with Parley for the Oceans, an initiative that is meant to preserve oceans through education and research as well as direct actions against plastic pollution in the oceans.It should lead to the creation of materials made out of ocean plastic waste, to be ...
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While selling Rockport, the Adidas Group is said to be...
While selling Rockport, the Adidas Group is said to be investing in Bucketfeet, a new and innovative American brand of canvas sneakers along with Gordon Segal, founder of Crate & Barrell, and others. Adidas, which is apparently making the investment through a fund called Hydra Ventures, declined to comment on ...
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The Adidas Group confirms reports that Tina Rolén, brand director...
The Adidas Group confirms reports that Tina Rolén, brand director at Adidas Nordic, is leaving the company. She joined Adidas in 2005 and has been in her latest job since 2012. Rolén was distinguished by Sportfack as Businesswoman of the Year in 2014 and she is the highest-ranking woman in the ...
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Debenhams, the upscale British department store chain, has decided to...
Debenhams, the upscale British department store chain, has decided to open 12 more Sports Direct concessions by August 2016, covering a total of 200,000 square feet, after encouraging tests since last summer at its stores in Bristol, Guildford, Harrow and Portsmouth. The management said there was no relation with the ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading U.K. sports retailer, has...
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading U.K. sports retailer, has come under scrutiny in a documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches. “The Secrets of Sports Direct” alleged that some of the discounts carried by the retailer may be misleading, because the company was inflating the original price of the products on ...
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Arc'teryx will open its first company-owned European flagship store in...
Arc'teryx will open its first company-owned European flagship store in the St. James district of London in August as part of a new program to establish similar flagships in key cities around the world. There is already an Arc'teryx store in London's Covent Garden, which is operated by Snow + ...
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The first permanent European physical store of Timbuk2 has opened...
The first permanent European physical store of Timbuk2 has opened in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. It features an area for the customization of messenger bags, which will be made in San Francisco and delivered within 7 to 10 days.
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Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia...
Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia through a retail partner, using it as a pilot for other stores in Spain. There are already a dozen Kelme stores in Delhi, the capital of India. According to CMD, Kelme raised it sales last year by 30 percent to ...
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Stadium has opened its first outlet store on Finnish soil,...
Stadium has opened its first outlet store on Finnish soil, outside of Helsinki. The outlet store is located in the large Tammisto shopping center in Vantaa. It is also the location of one of Stadium's 26 regular stores in the country. The company has already had a successful roll-out of ...
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Team Sportia, the recently reorganized Swedish retailer, has opened a...
Team Sportia, the recently reorganized Swedish retailer, has opened a new concept store with a strong focus on bicycles and triathlon in the warmer months and cross-country skiing in the colder months, following the renovation of a former fairly anonymous shop. It is located in Barkarby's Ikea shopping center, next ...
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Intersport Sverige has launched a click & collect application in...
Intersport Sverige has launched a click & collect application in its store at Stockholm's Arlanda airport and at four other locations in the Swedish capital. Working with a Swedish company, Welcom, it has a developed an app that allows customers to select the products that they want to order with ...
